Sanna Salanterä
PhD, Professor of Clinical Nursing Science, Vice Dean
Turku University Hospital sansala@utu.fi +358 29 450 2709 +358 50 555 0567 Kiinamyllynkatu 10 Turku |
Digital Nursing, Health Technology
Nursing Decision-Making
Pain care
Intelligent Health
I am Professor of Clinical Nursing Science and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, and Fellow of the European Academy of Nursing Science. I co-lead a research programme Intelligent Health UTU. My ongoing research projects can be found in:
https://sites.utu.fi/nursingscienceresearchprogrammes/intelligent-health/.
Currently my main research interesests are health technology and clinical nursing. Our research team "Connected Health" develops and studies gamification of health, IoT for nursing and health, symptom care, information technology to support clinical decision-making, and text mining of clinical narratives.
https://sites.utu.fi/nursingscienceresearchprogrammes/connected-health-utu/
Leader of Clinical nursing science education
UTU Nursing Leader of joint master's programme Future health and technology between the University of Turku, Finland and Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Co-leader of research programme Connected Health, PhD-education, Co-course leader of "Clinical interventions in health technology", "From research to scientific publication", "Systematic reviews in health sciences"
Research methods, clinical nursing science, decision-making in nursing, pain care (especially assessment of acute pain), health technology
Curriculum development
Member of Educational Council and Continuous education working group, University of Turku
- Lähikuvassa hoitotyön johtaminen (2018)
- Pro terveys
- Nursing leaders' satisfaction with information systems in the day-to-day operations management in hospital units (2018)
- Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
- Ontology Development for Patient Education Documents Using a Professional- and Patient-Oriented Delphi Method (2018)
- CIN: Computers Informatics Nursing
- Protocol for digital intervention for effective health promotion of small children—A cluster randomized trial (2018)
- Journal of Advanced Nursing
- Reliability of three linguistically and culturally validated pain assessment tools for sedated ICU patients by ICU nurses in Finland (2018)
- Scandinavian Journal of Pain
- Rescheduling nursing staff with information technology-based staffing solutions: a scoping review (2018)
- International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management
- Secondary School Nurse as an information source for Finnish Sexual and Gender Minority Youth (2018)
- TUCS Lecture Notes
- The prevalence of neck-shoulder pain, back pain and psychological symptoms in association with daytime sleepiness - a prospective follow-up study of school children aged 10 to 15 (2018)
- Scandinavian Journal of Pain
- Tutustu johtamisrooleihisi BosSi:lla (2018)
- Pro terveys
- Usefulness of an antibiotic prescription-based healthcare-associated infection surveillance program in an ICU setting (2018)
- Canadian Journal of Infection Control
- Voiding school as a treatment of daytime incontinence or enuresis: Children's experiences of the intervention (2018)
- Journal of Pediatric Urology
- Acceptability of and Demand for a Tobacco-Related Health Game Application in Early Adolescents with Different Gender, Age and Gaming Habits (2017)
- CEUR Workshop Proceedings
- A Proxy-Based Solution for Asynchronous Telemedical Systems (2017)
- International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications
- Association of Self-Perceived Physical Competence and Leisure-Time Physical Activity in ChildhoodA Follow-Up Study (2017)
- Journal of School Health
- Comparison of Fitbit One® Against ActiGraph in Measuring Habitual Physical Activity of Children (2017) Hamari L, Kullberg T, Ruohonen J, Heinonen OJ, Díaz-Rodríguez N, Lilius J, Pakarinen A, Myllymäki A, Leppänen V, Salanterä S.
- DESCRIPTION OF CARDIAC SURGERY PATIENT’S PAIN PROCESS BASED ON SEMANTIC ANNOTATION OF ELECTRONIC PATIENT RECORD DATA (2017) Kristiina Heikkilä, Anna Axelin, Laura-Maria Peltonen, Pauliina Anttila, Juho Heimonen, Timo Viljanen, Tapio Salakoski, Sanna Salanterä
- Designing a Health-Game Intervention Supporting Health Literacy and a Tobacco-Free Life in Early Adolescence (2017)
- Games for Health
- Detecting mentions of pain and acute confusion in Finnish clinical text (2017) SIGBioMed Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language: Proceedings of the 16th BioNLP Workshop Hans Moen, Kai Hakala, Farrokh Mehryary, Laura-Maria Peltonen, Tapio Salakoski, Filip Ginter, Sanna Salanterä
- Development of an instrument for the evaluation of advanced life support performance (2017)
- Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica
- Health check documentation of psychosocial factors using the WAI (2017)
- Occupational Medicine



